China
is undergoing economic transition and upgrade. Its national strategies on
innovation-driven development and Made in China 2025 have set goals for higher
vocational colleges and universities of applied technology to cultivate
high-skilled human resources. On the other hand, vocational and technical institutions
in China have been actively involved in the Belt and Road Initiative and
international industrial capacity cooperation.

How
to reposition and push forward the Vocational and Professional Education and
Training (VPET) against this background? The 2017 International Forum on VPET will
bring policy-makers, institution leaders and professionals from China and
around the world, including leaders in education, government, business and
industry to share new ideas and best practice and to discuss how to better
collaborate for future growth and developments of VPET.